Category: David

In the last few days I’ve noticed a couple of goose nests left unattended with a single egg. Are the shifts in the weather making the birds abandon their nests?

Small fern surrounded by luxuriant moss growing in the damp and shade on the wall of a bridge carrying a railway line over the Birmingham Canal.

Jackdaws delving in the muddy ground of the boar’s and hensenclosures at Northycote Farm. There were about thirty jackdaws altogether.

A stroll along the canal last weekend, and the first lesser celandines were beginning to flower beside the towpath. I always think they are a sign that late winter is finally giving way to spring.

The fat balls on the feeder at Northycote Farm were packed with a variety of seeds. At least three long-tailed tits kept on eating as much as they could.

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Dog’s mercury is a woodland plant which flowers early in spring, before the trees get their leaves back to put the ground in shade.

The buds of these plants in the Northycote Farm woods were just beginning to open as the inconspicuous white flowers.